“Borrowed Words” by Alan Dawidowicz, Washington Heights

Love and Heartbreak July 13, 2011 22:35

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT

as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak”

These words I put on paper

What do they mean?

A window in to my soul

Perhaps, so it may seem.

Words of hope, fear, and love

But are there words of God above?

These words I put on paper,

What do they mean?

Are they empty letters,

From which there is nothing to glean,

Random symbols, shapes, and spaces,

Merely glanced over by the eyes on all your faces

Are these words a picture of me

All I am, maybe ever, will be?

Are they my secrets

Laid bare for you to see?

Should I be frightened and scared,

Or should I feel free

I see your face,

But I don’t see you.

You see my words,

And you see right through

Me and my whole past.

Would you still love me after that?

Whose words these are I think I know

They belong to a man who wishes his soul

Was like a fresh white snow

A clear dark night,

Clean and covered in white

These words are my path

My road in life.